The challenge of facts, and other essays

by: Sumner, William Graham, 1840-1910; Keller, Albert Galloway, 1874-1956

Publication date: 1914

Topics: Social sciences

Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press; [etc., etc.]

Collection: cdl; americana

Digitizing sponsor: MSN

Contributor: University of California Libraries

Language: English

Sketch of William Graham Sumner.--The challenge of facts.--Reply to a socialist.--What makes the rich richer and the poor poorer?--The concentration of wealth: its economic justification.--Industrial war.--A parable.--The demand for men.--The significance of the demand for men.--What the "social question" is.--What emancipates.--Power and progress.--Consequences of increased social power.--What is the "proletariat"?--Who win by progress?--Federal legislation on railroads.--Legislation by clamor.--The shifting of responsibility.--The state as an "ethical person."--The new social issue.--Speculative legislation.--Republican government.--Democracy and responsible government.--Advancing social and political organization in the United States

Addeddate: 2007-05-25 00:59:01

Associated-names: Keller, Albert Galloway, 1874-1956

Bookplateleaf: 4

Call number: SRLF:LAGE-142063

Camera: 5D

Collection-library: SRLF

Copyright-evidence: Evidence reported by james-hixon for item challengeoffacts00sumniala on May 25, 2007: visible notice of copyright; stated date is 1914.